I love maps.
I love 'eccentric' maps.
Wondering about the borders of the Hungarian Empire
before 1914,
I found that it stretched from Bratislava (in modern Slovakia)
in the NW to Brasov (modern Romania) in the SE,
and from Mukachevo (n Ukraine, Hungarian Mukács)
to the present Mohács (still part of Hungary).
On its southern border, Újvidék is now
Novi Sad in Northern Serbia.
Hungary has been horribly truncated.
However, I was cheered up by this page
of amusing, tongue-in-cheek sociological maps
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
from a 19th century Austrian point of view.
This is one of them.
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